k is, shockingly, completely psycho. and today’s revelation is brought to you by the makers of advil and letters STFU! one of the games on the xbox’s arcade disc kiir picked up is backgammon. i’ve often wondered how to play backgammon, so i decded to give it a shot. omg, k went baLLISTIC over that. [...]
From a NYT article (What’s Wrong with Cinderella?) Easier, that is, unless you want to buy your daughter something that isn’t pink. Girls’ obsession with that color may seem like something they’re born with, like the ability to breathe or talk on the phone for hours on end. But according to Jo Paoletti, an associate [...]
monday is new years day, we have the day off. i’m an hourly employee, i have to make up that time, so 4x10hr days. president ford died this week. 93, not bad considering apparently there were two assassination attempts during his brief presidency (2yrs or something i think). because of this, president bush has declared [...]
on the salvation army thing, kiir decided not to bother with the furniture that was questionable upstairs. so i took it apart and hauled it to the dump thursday. we decided on what we needed for the bathroom, so saturday morning i tore it up and got the old vanity & sink out. took it [...]
my grandmother and aunt made some clothes (crochet) for the baby. i’m kinda disturbed by the “diaper cover” (they’re not shorts, it’s closer to a pair of crocheted underwear … it goes over the diaper to hide it or something; i doubt that’ll see much use b/c it just disturbing), and kiir didn’t like some [...]
was trying to move the old flat-screen (not panel) 32″ tv downstairs last night. figured it was only a couple years old, worth keeping. but it’s really heavy. not out of the realm of my ability to move, but really heavy. and then it’s really bulky. and some moron decided NOT to design hand-hold places [...]
saturday i was supposed to do the third bathroom. put K in for the weekend for it and everything. after kiir got up, we went out and checked to be sure they had what we needed at home depot before i take out the old one :o did lunch, bought the xbox, some general shopping [...]
this weekend we were going to try and hook up with a nintendo revolution. sunday was the second release. we’d also been looking at an xbox360 (gears of war looked interesting to me) and we’d found some games so it wasn’t just for one game anymore saturday we bought an X and a handful of [...]
monday i got the master fixed up. when the pipes were all connected and screwed down, the top doesn’t wobble anymore yay. wednesday i worked on the hall. with some pvc cement and some of the bits i’d bought over the 4 day saga, i managed to get the sink together. noticed last night that [...]
replaced two of the vanities this weekend. will do the last one next weekend. didn’t really get started saturday, b/c i needed a wrench bigger than what i had, and after we got that we ended up at babies r us somehow ;o sunday i finished taking out the hall vanity and we went out [...]